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I recently invited Vice President of Research Leo Chalupa to an English Department faculty meeting. His reaction surprised me: instead of averring that he was far too busy investing money in science policy and under-researched diseases (worthy causes, but not ones that especially attract humanist researchers to the table), he announced he’d be delighted to…
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Yes, I know: it’s summer, and most of us have turned our brains off (I am just back from a family vacation at Disney World, and if that doesn’t constitute adequate proof of cranial de-activation, I do not know what would). Here, though, is some exciting news, courtesy of Cathy Eisenhower at the Gelman Library:…
Mixing Pyschoanalysis with English: Marshall Alcorn’s Washington Trauma Conference
English is said to overlap with many other disciplines: American studies, theater, linguistics, and more. But how about psychology? Maybe this would not be your first connection, and even Marshall Alcorn is not the first to claim that the two subjects go together. Our Director of the English Undergraduate Studies, Director of Human Sciences, and…
For Published Graduate Student GW Is Only the Next Step
For most graduate students, getting a PhD will be their greatest recent accomplishment. However when Tariq Al-Hayder came to study at GW he was not only a teacher, but a published novelist as well. Originally hailing from Saudi Arabia, Al-Hayder taught English at King Saud University in Riyadh for a year. Whether in the classroom…
Would You Like to Take a Course on Screenwriting with a Famous Hollywood Writer?
The English Department welcomes our alumnus, Jason Filardi (’93) back to campus in Spring 2009. A successful writer and producer now residing in Los Angeles, Jason has agreed to teach a course called “Screenwriting” (English 182.10) that will admit fifteen lucky undergraduates. The application form is here and can also be picked up in the…
Ann Romines Publishes Scholarly Edition of Cather’s “Sapphira and the Slave Girl”
From the University of Nebraska Press website: Willa Cather’s twelfth and final novel, Sapphira and the Slave Girl, is her most intense fictional engagement with political and personal conflict. Set in Cather’s Virginia birthplace in 1856, the novel draws on family and local history and the escalating conflicts of the last years of slavery—conflicts in…